György Szollát, a Hungarian biologist and botanist, was working in the vascular plant
collections of the Department of Botany in the Hungarian Natural History Museum from
1978 to 2007. His main fields were exploring and monitoring the flora and vegetation
of the national parks and protected areas in the surroundings of Budapest, in the
Gerecse Mts, in Nógrád and Somogy counties, in the Dráva Lowland, in Mt Szársomlyó,
and in the Aggtelek National Park. He also participated in several expeditions to
unique destinations such as the trips to North Korea within an exchange program of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His publications and educational activities were
outstanding concerning the more than 50 papers and articles, numerous exhibition scripts,
presentations and the translations of many natural history books and documentaries.
His photographs of flowers were published in different journals and magazines. Between
2007 and 2018, he was an academic teacher at the faculty of nature conservation engineering
at the Kaposvár University.
